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Pregnancy and postpartum are high-risk periods for different forms of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). However, the management of pregnancy-associated TMA remains ill defined. This report, by an international multidisciplinary working group of obstetricians, nephrologists, hematologists, intensivists, neonatologists, and complement biologists, summarizes the current knowledge of these potentially severe disorders and proposes a practical clinical approach to diagnose and manage an episode of pregnancy-associated TMA. This approach takes into account the timing of TMA in pregnancy or postpartum, coexisting symptoms, first-line laboratory workup, and probability-based assessment of possible causes of pregnancy-associated TMA. Its aims are: to rule thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in or out, with urgency, using ADAMTS13 activity testing; to consider alternative disorders with features of TMA (preeclampsia/eclampsia; hemolysis elevated liver enzymes low platelets syndrome; antiphospholipid syndrome); or, ultimately, to diagnose complement-mediated atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS; a diagnosis of exclusion). Although they are rare, diagnosing TTP and aHUS associated with pregnancy, and postpartum, is paramount as both require urgent specific treatment.
Author(s): Fakhouri F, Scully M, Provôt F, Blasco M, Coppo P, Noris M, Paizis K, Kavanagh D, Pène F, Quezada S, Hertig A, Kissling S, O'Brien P, Delmas Y, Winer N, Veyradier A, Cataland S, Frémeaux-Bacchi V, Loirat C, Remuzzi G, Tsatsaris V, the International Working Group on Pregnancy-Related Thrombotic Microangiopathies
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Blood
Year: 2020
Volume: 136
Issue: 19
Pages: 2103-2117
Print publication date: 05/11/2020
Online publication date: 17/08/2020
Acceptance date: 23/07/2020
ISSN (print): 0006-4971
ISSN (electronic): 1528-0020
Publisher: American Society of Hematology
URL: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2020005221
DOI: 10.1182/blood.2020005221
PubMed id: 32808006
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